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Personalized Learning
ACT’s ScootPad Scoop-Up
[…] Division President, Jonell Sanchez, has been leading this effort and said his team chose ScootPad for a variety of reasons that aligned to their strategy for personalizing instruction for individual students. “This really catapults our learning strategy…building on ACT’s strength of their 60 year history in assessment and aligning that to learning,” says Sanchez. […]
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Personalized Learning
Future Ready: The New Version of School
[…] online program. 1. Blend the core academic program. Many schools have spent five or 10 years blending digital tools and resources into their print-based curriculum and updating their instructional strategies. Some spent the last two months catching up. Five years ago, our Implementation Guide 3.0 described blended learning as “a formal education program in which a […]
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SEL & Mindset
Book Review: Otherful by Mike Kleba & Ryan O’Hara
[…] Principals and superintendents have been working doggedly in the past weeks equipping their teachers to make sure a student’s basic needs are met before while not forsaking instruction and learning from afar. And while teachers collaborate with parents and try to protect instructional time, administrators are doing what they can to look ahead and […]
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Personalized Learning
Successful Play-Based Learning in Virtual Environments
Of all things instructional that may be challenging to facilitate in the distance environment, play-based learning may be one of the most. But don’t tell that to Teacher Aidan Bybee who has been making quite an impression with her virtually-facilitated play-based instruction and activities. Bybee, along with her team at iLEAD Agua Dulce (a […]
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Leadership
Summer Learning: 10 Professional Learning Experiences for Educators
Rachelle Dene Poth shares seven summer professional learning opportunities for educators.
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Learning Design
Climate at the Apex of Education Re-Design
[…] even more macro level, as far back as 2004 the state of California introduced Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs). Not only implemented in the classroom through standards-based instruction, since 2016 environmental literacy is by law in all California adopted textbooks and instructional materials. According to the California Education and Environment Initiative, the intent is […]
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Leadership
Scaling Active Learning: Professional Development Was Key to the El Paso Transformation
By: Shannon Buerk. In the fourth blog in a series on El Paso Independent School District, Shannon describes the important role that professional learning played in the district's transformation.
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Personalized Learning
3 Ways Leaders Can Create The Conditions for Deeper Learning
Project-based learning is becoming the way many educators and educational leaders are beginning to view the future of instructional pedagogy. When teachers, leaders, schools and districts become more project-based focused, they often tend to aim their attention at targets such as professional learning, scheduling, cohorts, collaborative teams, courses, technology and graduate profiles. These are […]
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Leadership
Active Learning: The Secret to El Paso’s Success
[…] shifting the district of 86 schools from a preoccupation with test prep toward a focus on the whole child, engaging project-based learning, and effective dual language literacy instruction. “The risk was TEKS alignment concerns, but we are doing fine with testing,” added Cabrera. “More kids have an engaging pedagogical environment without the drill and […]
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Getting Through
Schools Need a Success Coach for Every Learner
[…] that “None of us is free until we are all free.” Ali has worked as a middle school teacher, university instructor, DE&I consultant, director of curriculum and instruction across more than 30 schools, and director of learning transformation at an international education design lab. Bb Ntsaky serves as the Director of Academics at Brooklyn […]
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